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The Android smart watch's time may not yet have come: Despite heavy promotion of Android Wear, Google's hardware partners, including LG Electronics, Motorola Mobility and Samsung Electronics, only shipped 720,000 of the devices last year.

BitTorrent Inc. is taking on Amazon and Netflix in 2015 with its own original television content platform, dubbed BitTorrent Originals. The first programming to roll out under BitTorrent's banner will be Children of the Machine (COTM), a Sci-Fi television series first announced in July.

These infamous devices of narcissism are a great way to make people mad. Switch your Twitter profile pic to one that's obviously taken with a selfie stick, and then sit back and watch the hive-mind rage pour your way. "Unfollow this guy", they'll tweet. But selfie sticks can be used for a lot more than just taking pictures of self, and they can be as legitimate a photography aid as a tripod or any other mounting device.

4K content streams are still little more than a trickle, but that's not stopping the industry from launching a proactive defense to protect them. The crackdown comes in the form of HDCP 2.2, an overhaul of the decade-old HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) specification.

The vast majority of the products we cover run on electricity, either from a wall outlet or a battery. But they're all designed to be used in the home. The Paint Handy doesn't use power at all, but we're bringing it to your attention because the concept and execution are just too compelling to ignore.

In the months leading up to the launch of Apple Watch, talk has largely revolved around the watch's style and specs like battery life. But Apple's wearable might actually be a game-changer now that the Food and Drug Administration is giving health app developers more freedom.

Canon's EOS 750D and EOS 760D add to an already confusing line-up of cameras in the company's digital SLR range. Both cameras are a step up from the EOS 700D, with improvements made in the areas of megapixels, processing, focusing, and controls.

Olympus has expanded its range of OM-D, Micro Four Thirds-based, interchangeable lens cameras to include the OM-D E-M5 Mark II. It's a 16-megapixel shooter that takes aim at cinematographers, offering many advances that will benefit users who have a penchant for moving images.

Where are the plans you intercepted? One crafty drone maker has lovingly crafted a quadracopter into the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy, and he's smuggled the plans out so you can build her yourself.

Smart home- or wearable tech: which is more likely to benefit your digital life this year?

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